Michael J.
Taylor

​Michael J. Taylor, more
commonly known simply as 'Taylor', has been teaching, performing, repairing and
recording West African percussion since 1994. The Director of the Tam Tam
Mandingue Djembe Academy - Chicago school of percussion, a Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy Senior Instructor and the founder and driving force behind Holy Goat Percussion, he teaches, perfo​rms, imports, sells and
repairs West African drums. He has traveled to Guinea, West Africa 6
times to study djembe, and has done performance and/or teaching tours in China,
Japan, Guinea, Brazil and Mexico so far. He has performed and/or taught
with Grand
Master Drummer Mamady Keita in China, Japan, Guinea and Mexico as of 2017.

His specialties are the djembe and dunun, but he plays a wide
assortment of other drums including bugaraboo, congas, frame drum, bongos, and
doumbek.